David Fanning
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- May 25, 1946 (age 80)
- Birthplace
- South Africa
Biography
David Fanning has been executive producer of Frontline , America’s only regularly scheduled investigative documentary series on television, since its first season in 1983. The series has won all the major awards for broadcast journalism, including 34 Emmys, 23 duPont-Columbia University Awards, 12 Peabody Awards, and 11 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards. In 2002, the series was honored with an unprecedented third Gold Baton from duPont-Columbia for its post September 11th coverage, a series of seven hour-long documentaries on the origins and impact of terrorism. In 2003, “A Dangerous Business,” a Frontline / New York Times joint investigation of the cast-iron pipe making industry, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. Fanning began his filmmaking career as a young journalist in South Africa. He came to the US in 1973 and began producing and directing local and national documentaries for KOCE, a public television station in California. In 1977, Fanning came to WGBH Boston to start the international documentary series WORLD.
Known For
Filmography
Documenting Police Use of Force
Movie · Executive Producer
Inside the Uvalde Response
Movie · Executive Producer
After Uvalde: Guns, Grief & Texas Politics
Movie · Executive Producer
America's Dangerous Trucks
Movie · Executive Producer
Plot to Overturn the Election
Movie · Executive Producer
America After 9/11
Movie · Executive Producer
Taliban Takeover
Movie · Executive Producer
The Healthcare Divide
Movie · Executive Producer
President Biden
Movie · Executive Producer
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
Movie · Executive Producer
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
In the Age of AI
Movie · Producer
Predator on the Reservation
Movie · Executive Producer
Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Out of Gitmo
Movie · Executive Producer
Mosul
Movie · Executive Producer
Terror in Europe
Movie · Executive Producer
The Rise of ISIS
Movie · Executive Producer
To Catch A Trader
Movie · Producer
Outlawed in Pakistan
Movie · Executive Producer
Snitch
Movie · Executive Producer
Kind Hearted Woman
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Dollars and Dentists
Movie · Executive Producer
Nuclear Aftershocks
Movie · Executive Producer
The Suicide Plan
Movie · Executive Producer
Money, Power & Wall Street
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Lost in Detention
Movie · Executive Producer
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Movie · Executive Producer
Facing Death
Movie · Executive Producer
The Released
Movie · Executive Producer
The Age of AIDS
Movie · Executive Producer
The Tank Man
Movie · Executive Producer
The Dark Side
Movie · Executive Producer
The New Asylums
Movie · Executive Producer
Beyond Baghdad
Movie · Executive Producer
Burden of Innocence
Movie · Executive Producer
Speaking of Sex
Movie · Co-Producer
The Killer at Thurston High
Movie · Executive Producer
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Movie · Executive Producer
War on Nicaragua
Movie · Executive Producer
Hostage in Iran
Movie · Executive Producer
Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man
Movie · Producer